Our condolences to the family of Mary Catherine Karpeles/Aunt Katie.Aunt Katie could have been my older sister, since we were just short of 16 years apart. We didso many things together  like: roller skating, ice skating (Polar Palace), movies, football games, a trip to San Diego Zoo on the train, the ballet (20th anniversary of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in Los Angeles) , shopping, golf, and skiing where she left me in the snowâ€™s â€œdustâ€.Aunt Katie loved licorice, putting puzzles together, entertaining, traveling, socializing with friends, showing visitors to her home in Corona del Mar and later Lake Arrowhead the local sights with a little history on each.I was fortunate in November to spend some alone time with her in Colorado reminiscing and showing her pictures of my grandson, her great grand nephew she never got to meet. She was someone I could call, when I felt like talking about who knows what.Ray, Jeremy, and I will truly miss her.

Growing up I lost my father at four, my sister was away at college when I needed interaction and the Karples family, especially Mary took me into her family and just allowed me a place to be a kid.  To play in the tree house, Marry me off to her daughter Denise ( at age 6, or so) Mary involved my family in vacations. My first time skiing was due to her kindness and family participation.  Then FAMILYS moved and 10 or 12 years I moved to Newport Beach and found Denise and I attended CDM , and I was reunited with this special family and Spent a few times at Mary's home and just talk about the past. I love her dearly and could never thank her enough for kicking me in the butt and having fun. With all my love and Prayers Mary.  Be at Peace and you are with God and his only son in Heaven....from there she shall watch her girls and their family's....

I have so many fond memories of my Aunt Mary or as we called her â€œAunt Katieâ€.  I remember as a child spending many days, nights, weeks at the house in Corona Del Mar, I can remember her and my uncle Joe taking me to the beach down on the peninsula as a child.  I vividly remember all the great parties (that includes Deniseâ€™s wild OMEN party), I just loved spending time with her and her family, which included Whitney, what a great dog!  I also remember on one of my birthdays, her coming into the back room, the one next to the â€œPINKâ€ bathroom (anyone who ever was in that house, knew of this bathroom) coming in waking me up in song and bringing me breakfast in bed, she then took me to Disneyland, just the two of us in that brown station wagon that was a legend it itself.  I remember her and I would load the 10-speeds into the back of the station wagon and drive down to Dana Point or other points along the way, pack a picnic lunch and go on nice long bike rides.  My favorites though were when we would go down on the bikes grab a quickie burger and then take the ferry across to either the pier or to the wedge and eat those burgers and people watch.  Iâ€™ll also never forget the nights weâ€™d all be upstairs watching TV and seeing the pavilion all lit up across the water. All truly special moments ingrained into my memory.   Iâ€™m very happy that the love of my life was also able to meet her on many occasions, one of which was a Thanksgiving at our house about 5 years ago. My one regret though was that my son never got to meet this wonderful lady, because to me that was who she was.  Iâ€™m sure glad that I was able to go up and see her in Colorado late last year, because to me, even in her advanced age and condition, she was still the same olâ€™ Aunt Katie to me, just a bit slower and a little quieter.  Iâ€™ll miss her and will always love and remember her.  She was the last of a generation and will be greatly missed by her family.

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Mary Katherine Karpeles

23 juin 1927 – 2 avril 2014

Ahlberg Funeral Chapel

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